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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1914)
BOY SCOUTS JELPIHG OUT British Ladi Are Patroling the , Shore Watching for Airships. I BO ME 8I0NIX0 AS BUGLERS 411 the V(nrlm I ajrirrstanil .! aaltnar ana Arf f t.rrat "cr Ire In AulMIni - This Rraarh nf Warfare. (Correspondence of the Associated rri-ss.) LO.MHJN, Sept. lS.-The Hoy s-Votils of Great Prltaln are dlstlmrutshlne; them selves In almoM every nay suiTKested y Juvenile f!rt1on. From the north of Scotland .1nn the saltern coast to the Isle of Wight on the south, sea scouts are patrolling the shore atrhltis; for the dresil.l Zeppelin or for aome armed raider that might have aped the Rrltlsh North Bea fleet, with a view to sinking the army transport In the channel. Hall ay bridges and reservoirs are watched hjr ramp of Scouts, relieving the soldiers who are needed at tha front. Orders coma Into tha scout district headquarlcr for buglers for Ixird Kitchener's new unity, or Hrltlsh buglers ire from 14 to 1 years of ace hikI enlist by their parents' ronaent. A Scout of 14 at one office has re-eKed tho necessary consent and he gives Ins com rades a a-lnk of triumph a tho scout master sign a letter to the recruiting fflca. Me will serve In the Middle 8c Juhltc school battalion. root Ideal preme. These are some of the military aspects of Bcout life. Put the Hcout Ideal of Serv Ice useful to the puhll- si. II Is supreme. Those entering Lord Kitchener' army as buglers are u mere handful out of the 200.0m aVouta In Great Hrltaln, cosst and railway patrols av unarmed, and merely ass'st the military as yea. Owing to the rapid recruiting In wnr time, no one uflll even Sir Robert lluden Powell knows the exact number of Fronts In the Vnfted Kingdom, nut In London alone: there arc 1M , acting s4 ordcrllrs In the war office, about, tha same number In the admiralty, trnding to telephone calls and acting as tnes at ngers, and TOO or more who do thi same service at the Hed 'ros and recruiting headquarter. Beside, there are about mo B -out rycllsta. ,yH)r tend to important srrar.d running between the various, sta tions. Scouts are ta b found at every train, guiding refugees with money to boarding houses approval by tho Ilrltlsh llef societies. If anyone wants to learn about a cer tain street, he calls fur a pathfinder a Pcout who has obtained speclnl rating as guide In Ixmdnn, after pusslng an ex amination even more severe, than thai required by the county council for a taxi chauffeur's license. Scouts have been loaned to the American relief committer and the American emhausy, where their services are Invaluable. At all Bcout above tha rank of tender foot understand signaling, their ksslstanre la often railed for In this re-.prct. Mais Boslaeaallke Air. On thing that ha particularly Im pressed Americana In 1-ondon I tha business-like and military air of the British Bcout. He ha no sleepUh feeling about appearing In uniform. He laproiid of hi rganliatlon and take hla'dutlc serl loiisly. .The scout are volunteer In the fullest sense, even to paying for their own uni form. Out a publicly assisted canteen, 'which serves mewls, at from 1 to 3 pence, now keep down hi cost of living. The Olrl Guide, the feminine branch of Baden-rowell' organisation, are no less busy. Thera ar more than 10,000 of these guide In tho kingdom and since the war their uniform ha beftome quite familiar on London ' street. The. girl are con cerned. In part. In knitting muffler and locking for tha Scout, but only In part. To take random Instances of their use fulness, tha rulde at Leeds scrubbed down a nous that ai lelng turned into a military hospital. In Hertfordshire they did tha mending; and darning for a regi ment of territorial. At Crawley they made puiilea .to amuse convalescent and ewrd newspaper together. for extra win ter blanket., At the London refugea ramp for homele Belgians tha girl act as nurses' for the children. At liar, row they are raising vegetable for the poor. , Every Red Cross hospital has It corp of Olrl Guides, who wash the dishes and do general cleaning, run errands, anil sometimes save step by wigwagging. Grand Old Man of the Kingdom Britain Seeking Ex-Army Officers (Correspondence of the Associated Tress.) LONDON. fpt. .-Tha secretary to the war office makea a world-wide ap peal to former officers of the army, who by reason of age are not on the reserve of officers, to communicate with him. The announcement add that It la In tended to utilise the service of thoaa Incapable of enduring the rigor of cam paigning In the training- of recruUs. WAR PRODUCES MANY MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON. Sept. 15. '.Var enthnslaam has caused all manner of military organl satlons to spring Into being, among them the sportsmen's battalion of 1.S00 mem bers which toward Cunllf fe-Owen. the twenty-third direct descendant of King Edward III. is engaged In forming. It Is to be exclusively trade up of men of gentle birth between the ages of forty and forty-five, men whoa habits and as oclat-n are so firmly fixed that they would not feel at home with tha young sters. Fox hunters, trained to tha hoi and daring, atand highest In tha list of those Invited to Join. Grouse shooters. hardened by long tramps over the moors and quick with the gun. are strong rivals But even the confirmed golfer la In de mand, for gulfing Implies a cool head and steady nerves. Bom of tha recruits have given fund and placed their motor cars at the dla posai of the battalion. Aa soon as the command Is pronounced ready for serv ice by tbs war office. It will be attached to a Una regiment and sent to the front. CROWDS SEEKS TO SEE PRINCE OF WALES IN KHAKI '.Correspondence of tha Associated Press.) LONDON. Urpt. SO. "A big crowd has acquired tha bad habit,' says the 'all Wall Uaaetta, "of loaflnx around Well ngtou barracks each . morning to sea the prince of Wales In khaki. On "Wed nee la y the prince was practically mobbed a tha most vulgar way as he walked icroa to Buckingham palace, and It took juit a large number of polios to prevent hundreds -of people, - who. should have known -yeitef, from following"" him ir running alongside,' ' . ssMssassasBBSSSSSSsaMSBssssBBSBBBW VsasssassssssisBsj III I Y;tf 1 ill WW m-' I wJtzzi : : ' ) h- s. I i V ;, !' .-: m wm v , m Imi te Ml llf .- ;mF fVt 1 lii Did Not Hear of the War for Six Weeks (Correspondence of the Associated Frees.) MELBOCItN'K, Australia, Aimust 29 I'naware of the outbreak of the war and wholly unsuspicious of the reception awaiting him, the captain of the Herman cargo steamer UdenfcU brought his vessel serenely throup;li Port 1 I'hilllp Heads, a few days uK3 on his way from New York to this port, t'pon rrnchltisT lha examination area lneUle tha leads tha vessel was slowed down, anil to the utter astonishment of tho skipper, Probst, n armed guard sprang aboard and enlightened him, and hi crew and took charge sf the ship. Probst was the more uatorilshed because his vessel was equipped with wlrelewi und he had been In communication with shipping when crossing the southern ocean. Thla wire less iu subsequently dismantled by the authorities hero. The Wildcnfels. which beloiiKS to the Hansa Una of Bremen left New York, June 19, and apart from a short call at Capetown came direct to Melbourne. It has about t.000 tons of carKn on board. A similar unpleasant surprise was given the captain and crew of tho Ocrmun-Auntralhin cargo steamer Perlln nt Sydney. It came from Ham burs; via the Cape of Good Hope, but was not provided with v.treless. On Direct Car Line to All Depot $, South Omaha and Council Bluff otel Harney H KIROPEAN 14th and Harney Sts, First Class Cafe in Connection Now Open phoxk: HOTKIi, 1K)U. ItHS CHAS. O. HOIlKNSEjr lroprietor : German Athletes at j the Front Fighting "nrrcpnndenre the Associated Press) PKKLIN. Kept. .10. -The Brhwerathlet-l-'nc Sort. the adherents of hlch are rspeclally utrons young men, is repre. rnted In the field by a great number of wrestlers and heavyweight lifters for tlx: defense of the country. The larg est KehwerathleMm hetclub In Iierlln has nent fifty-tour, ' or nearly all its active rwmbers, to the" front. Among these aro Frans I'tirhhnlz, the champion weight lifter of I'.erlln; Kockel and Paullnl. the world s hamplon wrestler--, and Koehler and Slaginm. the European champion. Germans Will Supply Soldiers with Cigars (Correspondence the Associated Press.) IlKRLIN. Sept. 10-In Mlnden a cen tral bureau for the distribution of to- bneco products during the war has been J orKanlsed, with a view to equalizing as far as possible the production and opera tion of clpur factories In all parts of Germany nnd to see to -It that the men I and officers In the field receive good clKars. The orders will be distributed j anng the Individual factories, accord- ing to the number of employes, j A barber In Herlln has announced by : placards that he will give a free hair cut to all children of fathers who have taken the field. BESTS We Defy Coropetitti Get Our Bid IVefore rioclrm Your Order. We Buy, 8H1 and Manufacture Store, Offir and Hank Fixtures. 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